At 1 a.m. on May 19, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in the last opponent of the Brazilian station in the first week of the World League, Serbian women's volleyball team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2-1 in the first three games (3-0 South Korea; 3-1 United States; 1-3 Canada); Serbia finished 2 matches with 1 win and 1 defeat (1-3 Dominica, 3-0 Thailand).
You must know that in this World Women's Volleyball League, the situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Serbian women's volleyball team is completely different, the primary goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team is to compete for the Paris Olympics tickets, and the Serbian team won the Paris Olympics ticket in the women's volleyball Olympic qualifying tournament held in September last year, so the World League is mainly to hone the lineup and accumulate strength for the Paris Olympics.
There are a total of 12 places for the women's volleyball team at the Paris Olympics, and 6 places were produced in the women's volleyball qualifying tournament last year, namely the United States, Brazil, Serbia, Turkey, Poland, and Dominica. In addition, the host French women's volleyball team and the Kenyan women's volleyball team, the first place in Africa, also went straight to the Paris Olympics, so far there have been 8 Olympic tickets, and there are still 4 places left.
And these 4 places will be generated through the world ranking on June 17, so far this World Women's Volleyball League is the last stop to change the world ranking, so how many teams are competing for the last 4 Olympic places?
There are a total of 16 teams participating in the World League, in addition to the United States, Brazil, Serbia, Turkey, Poland, Dominica, and France, 7 teams have qualified for the Olympics, and the remaining 9 teams will compete for 4 Olympic places in Paris, namely China, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Thailand, Bulgaria, and South Korea.
However, the two teams of Bulgaria and South Korea are too weak to have the ability to attack the Olympic tickets, so far there are only 7 teams left to compete for 4 Olympic tickets. Before the Chinese women's volleyball team played against Serbia, the latest world ranking points of the 7 teams competing for tickets to the Paris Olympics are as follows:
Italy (6th in the world, 333.13 points)
China (7th in the world, 328.69 points)
Japan (8th in the world, 323.20 minutes)
Canada (10th in the world, 286.92 points)
Netherlands (11th in the world, 282.19 points)
Germany (12th in the world, 227.86 points)
Thailand (13th in the world, 217.28 points)
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that the world ranking points of Germany and Thailand are not very high, and the overall strength of these two teams is also limited, so in fact, it is Italy, China, Japan, Canada, and the Netherlands 5 teams competing for 4 tickets to the Paris Olympics.
In the last round, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost in a direct confrontation with the rival Canadian team for the Paris Olympics, and the 1-3 defeat made the Chinese women's volleyball team lose 11.01 points in the world ranking points, so that the world ranking of the Chinese women's volleyball team dropped from the 6th place before the start of the World League to the current 7th, so every game after that is very critical for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
If the Chinese women's volleyball team defeats Serbia 3-0, the points will increase by 10.92 points, the 3-1 win will increase by 8.42 points, and the 3-2 win will increase by 5.92 points, and if the 0-3 defeat is complete, the points will be reduced by 9.08 points, the 1-3 loss will be reduced by 6.58 points, and the 2-3 loss will be reduced by 4.08 points.
The Serbian team has already qualified for the Paris Olympics, and this World League did not send the strongest team; On the Chinese women's volleyball team's side, Zhu Ting only returned to China on May 10, so she was absent from the first week of the Brazil station, and she is very hopeful to participate in the second week of the Macau, China station starting on May 29.
The starting lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this game:
Main attack: Li Yingying, Wang Yunrui
Secondary attack: Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan
Answer: Gong Xiangyu; Second setter: Diao Linyu; Free man: Wang Mengjie
Compared with the previous three games, the biggest change in the starting lineup of the Chinese women's volleyball team is that the main offensive position replaced the 21-year-old Wu Mengjie with Wang Yunrui. Serbia women's volleyball starting lineup:
Main attack: Lozo, Milenkovic
Secondary attack: Osmagic, Kurtagic
Pick-up: Bujerica
Setter: Mirkovic
Free man: Popovich
In the first game, the Serbian women's volleyball team took a 4-0 lead, Cai Bin reluctantly asked for a timeout, and the Chinese women's volleyball team once chased the score to 9-10, and then the Serbian women's volleyball team expanded the difference to 4 points.
In the middle and late stages of the first game, the Chinese women's volleyball team stubbornly chased the score to a 19-19 draw. After that, the Serbian women's volleyball team scored 2 points in a row, the Chinese women's volleyball team chased it to 20-21, and the Serbian women's volleyball team scored 4 points in a row and took the lead in winning the first game 25-21.
At the beginning of the second game, the Chinese women's volleyball team took the lead and stopped the opponent after leading 8-3. After the pause, the Chinese women's volleyball team continued to widen the score difference, once leading the opponent by 6 points 10-4. After that, the Serbian women's volleyball team beat the Chinese team 6-3, and the score was chased to 10-13, and Cai Bin decisively asked for a timeout.
After that, the Chinese women's volleyball team gradually stabilized the situation and did not let Serbia close the score difference again. At the end of the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team got 9 game points in the second game 24-15, and immediately cashed in the game points, winning the second game 25-15 and bringing the big score to a 1-1 draw.
In the third game, the Chinese women's volleyball team took the lead 6-3, and 13-8 in the middle stretched the difference to 5 points and stopped the opponent. After the pause, the Serbian women's volleyball team continued to chase points, once chasing the score to 12-14, but the Chinese women's volleyball team still stabilized the situation, scored continuously in the middle and late stages, and the Serbian team couldn't chase the score, and the Chinese women's volleyball team won the third game 25-18, and the big score was 2-1 to overtake the opponent.
At the beginning of the fourth game, the Chinese women's volleyball team took the lead again, and gradually opened the point difference, leading the opponent by as many as 6 points 12-6 in the middle section, and then the Chinese women's volleyball team maintained the lead until the end of the game, and finally won the fourth game 25-18, reversing Serbia with a big score of 3-1, and winning 3-1 in Brazil in the first week of the World League.
Throughout this game, the Chinese women's volleyball team completely let go in the last three games, Li Yingying and Wang Yuanyuan both slashed 19 points, especially Wang Yuanyuan went berserk in this game, 16 deductions, 13 mistakes, 3 net scores, 3 serve scoring efficiency; Li Yingying made 33 deductions, 17 of them, made 3 mistakes, and blocked the net 2 times.
Gong Xiangyu also scored 18 points, 29 deductions, 14 shots, 2 turnovers, 2 block scores, 2 serve points; Wang Yunrui scored 9 points, 24 deductions, 7 shots, 2 turnovers, 1 block score, 1 serve score; Yuan Xinyue 8 points, Diao Linyu 4 points, Zheng Yixin 1 point.
In another game played at the same time, the Italian women's volleyball team defeated the world's No. 1 Turkish women's volleyball team 3-1, and the world ranking points increased by 10.65 points, while the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Serbian team 3-1 and increased by 8.42 points, so the Italian women's volleyball team is still ranked 6th in the world and the Chinese women's volleyball team is 7th in the world.
At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team is 13.91 points ahead of the Japanese team ranked 8th, and the fourth game of the Japanese women's volleyball team will be against the Polish team. In the second week of the World League, the two teams will face each other directly, and that game is undoubtedly a key battle for the first place in Asia!
The overall performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Brazil in the first week is still acceptable, and the situation of being shortlisted for the Paris Olympics is also relatively clear. And from the second week of Macau, China, Zhu Ting will most likely return, fans have not seen the Chinese women's volleyball team with Zhu Ting for a long time, what kind of performance Zhu Ting will have under Cai Bin, we will wait and see!